[Horse-drawn cart with house in background] – Historic Reproduction
![[Horse-drawn cart with house in background], [ca. 184-] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1f/1fe861d03172-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with [Horse-drawn cart with house in background], an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A horse-drawn cart set against a house in the background gives this wood engraving the feel of an everyday village or farm scene rather than a portrait of any particular animal. The record credits Alexander Anderson, the American engraver often called the first to practice wood engraving in the United States, and dates the print to about the 1840s. Engravings of this kind were usually made as small illustrations for books and periodicals, where fine lines cut into boxwood gave cheap printing a crisp, lifelike finish. The date comes from an old caption card and has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | [ca. 184-] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Wood engraving by Alexander Anderson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 946 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173582 |
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